Protect your FTP transfers by using SFTP
Did you know that every time you connect to your ftp site using regular “ftp://” (or not specifying at all), your username and password are fully visible to anyone sniffing around at the right time, which exposes your site to being hacked.
Most reputable hosts these days support secure FTP, and if you’re using an average to good FTP program you can choose to connect using SFTP. Once you do this it will likely trigger a security certificate issue (which you just accept) and you’re on your way to having fully encrypted data transfers. In CuteFTP I simply connect to sftp://yummy-wakame.com instead of ftp://yummy-wakame.com, and it changes the ports and all the settings automatically for me. Depending on your FTP client it may be a little more complicated than this but its definitely worth a try. I now connect to all my clients websites in this way and thought I’d share.
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Comments
yup. That's why cute ftp is great. Just switch the connection type over and it's exactly the same, you don't even notice it.
I'm honestly surprised SFTP hasn't become the standard in the same way SSH has supplanted telnet.
yeah. Im surprised that FTP programs dont attempt to connect that time the first time.
Dan, meet Mark – Pair support. Mark has already met you :P
probably answers some of my pair support email! It's time that i meet someone over at pair as i'm working with you guys with all my clients.
i suppose it will only happen when the server stop accepting ftp connections. As long as they do software will continue to offer it. Most terminal programs so still offer Telnet, but probably like putty, they default to ssh. i don't know does pair still accept telnet connections? (i can't remember the last time i telnet over.. putty always connects via ssh)
Dan – in fact, it was I who answered your support e-mail last night ;-)
i still can't figure out why cuteftp won't go in sftp mode on my laptop. Desktop is working fine. Even edit plus working fine on my laptop.I suppose every time i send a support email olivia will now get a copy ;)
hahaha! no. please no. its just a facebook coincidence and we'll leave it at that :P
heheh yeah I just happened to see that facebook post right after looking at the ticket and thought to myself "hey that name looks familiar."
It’s always good to use SSL where available.
I am Sanjay Kumar from India at Delhi. I would like to know how we are protect our FTP Account and how we create external FTP account.
I don’t know about external FTP account bu my website: http://www.moneyinhands.com is infected during the FTP login, so please suggest me properly which types of steps we do follow to ignore this problem in future.
You need to contact your web host to notify them that there is a virus on the server so they can scan and clean the virus off. You also should install and run a good virus scanner. I recommend AVG Antivirus Free Edition.